Jesus was a master of teaching truths through parables. Jesus’ parables are short stories that teach a moral or spiritual lesson using ordinary everyday experiences, analogy or similar comparisons.

It's the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time and our Sunday gospel today talks about the Parable of the Growing Seed found in Mark 4:26-34. Our Lord Jesus speaks to his disciples in parables so they would ...

The tiniest seed of the mustard plant is loaded with flavour. So, too, do the fables of religious and secular literature imbue the seed with greatness. In Buddhist teachings, the mustard seed is used ...